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Tiny Star That Somehow Produced a Giant Planet

The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 5h

Unexpected giant: Saturn-mass planet found orbiting tiny red dwarf

As part of a survey seeking giant planets around low-mass stars, researchers examined more than 91,000 red dwarf stars and found the planet TOI-6894b, which has only half the mass of Saturn."We analyzed observations of more than 91,

Discovery of giant planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and hosting of a large planet.

ScienceAlert on MSN · 2d

A Super-Tiny Star Gave Birth to a Giant Planet And We Don't Know How

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars were thought to be incapable of producing giant planets. But there, in its orbit, appears to be unmistakable evidence of an absolute unit: a gas giant around the size of Saturn.

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New ICE deportation operation and possible dwarf planet discovery: Morning Rundown

Plus, an in-depth look at how the West Texas city of Seminole reacted when a measles outbreak tore through the region.

Space.com on MSN6d

Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it could spell bad news for Planet 9 fans

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

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Pluto's 'extreme cousin' is a dwarf planet found at the far reaches of our solar system

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

NBC News on MSN20h

Some astronomers think they've spotted a new dwarf planet

Some scientists think they discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system, so far away that it takes around 25 ...

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Search for elusive "Planet Nine" takes surprising twist, astronomers say

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN7d

Astronomers Discover a Possible Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Neptune, Where There Should Have Only Been Empty Space

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

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Planet Nine of Solar System? Scientists Discover Possible New Dwarf Planet Beyond Neptune [Read More]

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

ATLANTIC SKIES: A new dwarf planet and the search for Planet Nine

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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Scientists Say They’ve Found a Dwarf Planet Very Far From the Sun

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Space on MSN17h

Dead Star Consumes Material From Planets In Hubble Data

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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